Movies like Daisies (1966)
The best movies like Daisies (1966) are Loves of a Blonde (1965), Pearls of the Deep (1966) and WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971). If Daisies hooked you with its comedy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedAmarcord (1973)7.9/10 from 1,263 votes
- NewestVaclav (2007)Released 2007
Loves of a Blonde (1965)
Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and leaves town assuming he'll never see Andula again. But when Andula doesn't hear from him, she packs up and heads to Prague, to the surprise of Milda and his parents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPearls of the Deep (1966)
A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded discussions, and death; two elderly men create false biographies; insurance agents visit an eccentric painter/goat farmer and his mother; guests at a wedding reception remain oblivious to outlying misery; and a working-class boy romances a Roma girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Elementary School (1991)
The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict – but also very fair. His weakness though, is his interest in young women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Balcony (1963)
The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966)
A model tells a television crew about her dreams of a life with prince charming all while fending off the lecherous advances of a horde of men.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Party and the Guests (1966)
A group of the bourgeois head for a prominent figure's birthday party. As they venture through the woods and have a picnic, they're suddenly surrounded by some suspicious strangers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlack Peter (1964)
A few days in the life of a Czechoslovak teenager when he starts work.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClosely Watched Trains (1966)
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Cremator (1969)
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVaclav (2007)
Vaclav, the village loser, in his 40's bordering on autism, lives with his widowed mother on the outskirts of the village. He is seen by villagers as the local fool, nothing but a constant pain for them, but there is a skeleton in the village closet concerning his father's death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
The Firemen's Ball (1967)
The firemen of a provincial Czechoslovakian town throw a ball in honor of the old chief's retirement. There will be music and dancing, a beauty pageant and a raffle. The whole town will be in attendance. However, the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. Workplace injuries, stolen prizes, a shortage of pretty girls... and fire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Milky Way (1969)
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of characters—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Beauty of Vice (1986)
In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost untouched by modern civilization. However, a young couple are going to seek their fortune on the more liberal coast and there they find jobs in the nudist colony. Hundreds of naked bodies and atmosphere of joie d'vivre make the husband and wife question their rigid way of life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll These Women (1964)
Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the cellist's house for a few days. He doesn't manage to get an interview with the man, but by talking to all the women who live with him, he comes to learn a lot about the musician's private life none the less. Cornelius then decides to use this information to blackmail the cellist into performing a composition that he, Cornelius, has written.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlow Up My Town (1968)
Suburbs of Brussels. A young woman locks herself in the kitchen of her apartment, as she blissfully devotes herself to dismantling the household chores, frenetically humming as she goes. A burlesque pamphlet against female alienation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa Chinoise (1967)
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAmarcord (1973)
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Joke (1969)
In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Exterminating Angel (1962)
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisMurmur of the Heart (1971)
This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAll My Good Countrymen (1969)
The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJoachim, Put It in the Machine (1974)
A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious, unsuccessful and even critical days and few successful days. The clumsy luckless person Frantisek has finally a guidance for his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMr. Freedom (1969)
Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty freethinkers, as well as the insidious evildoers Moujik Man and inflatable Red China Man, culminating in a star-spangled showdown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
Six Prague residents pursue bizarre rituals. Mr. Peony builds a chicken costume to wear while enacting homicidal fantasies toward neighbor Mrs. Loubalova, who does the same dressed as a dominatrix. Their mail carrier, Mrs. Malkova, inhales tiny balls of bread. Newsstand operator Mr. Kula obsessively watches the broadcasts of news anchor Mrs. Beltinska, whose husband regularly scrubs his body.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhen the Cat Comes (1963)
While old Oliva tells a group of children about his life as a sailor and how he met Diana and her cat with sunglasses, a strange circus arrives in town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHyenas (1992)
A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Daisies?
The closest matches to Daisies are Loves of a Blonde (1965), Pearls of the Deep (1966) and WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Daisies?
People who watched Daisies most often go on to Loves of a Blonde (1965), Pearls of the Deep (1966) and WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971).
What is the highest-rated movie like Daisies?
Amarcord (1973), rated 7.9/10 by 1,263 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Daisies?
Vaclav (2007) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Daisies chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Daisies, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.